Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 26
When they had marched many days, there came to Ogier the Dane, who led the van of the army, a messenger riding in hot haste.
Who acts: Ogier · What happens: march, come, lead · To what, where: things, Ogier, van
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 marched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 marched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marched | aux |
| 4 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marched | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 came | expl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marched | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Ogier | case |
| 11 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dane | det |
| 13 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ogier | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 led | nsubj |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Ogier | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 van | det |
| 18 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 army | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 army | det |
| 21 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 van | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 riding | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 riding | det |
| 24 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 riding | compound |
| 25 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 van | appos |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 haste | case |
| 27 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 haste | amod |
| 28 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 riding | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past · perfect · passive | things = thing | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Ogier; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ogier=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | Ogier | the van of the army | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent van=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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